Gambling in the Headlines

We’re not the only ones fixated on gambling: the Daily Mail reports on allegations that Wimbledon is being fixed by bookmakers for the Russian mafia; the New York Sun reports on Governor Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg‘s efforts to keep Off-Track Betting parlors open; the Las Vegas Sun is closely following the cost of expansion in Sin City, focusing on the 11 construction-related deaths over the past 16 months; the New York Times discovers the secret world of poker chip collectors. And related ever so slightly: Mark Wahlberg created a happening of his own when he publicly bashed the Ocean’s 11 films. “The second one sucked,” Wahlberg told UK’s Zoo Today. “People tell George Clooney it’s great, but we all know it sucked.”